Mathematics 15a - Fall 2007
Applied Linear Algebra

Professor:
Robert Winters
(click here to contact me) 
Office: Goldsmith 222
Tel: 781-736-3054, (but 
e-mail is preferred)

Calendar:
Weekly topics, HW assignments, solutions, and supplements 

Solutions
to homework and exams

Office hours are Mondays and Wednesdays from noon to 1:00pm and from 3:30pm to at least 4:00pm; and Thursdays from noon to 1:00pm and from 2:00pm to at least 2:30pm.

Textbook 
 Linear Algebra with Applications, 3rd Edition, by Otto Bretscher,  published for 2005 by Prentice Hall. The ISBN for the text is 0-13-145334-3. It will available at the Harvard Coop bundled with the student solutions manual.

 Compare prices:
Linear Algebra With Applications, 3rd Ed. 

Note:  It's possible to get by with either of the previous editions since we'll be posting the homework assignments as PDFs.

Conversion of the problems in the 3rd Edition to their equivalents in the 2nd Edition. [Some problems in the 3rd Edition are new and have no equivalents in the previous edition of the text.]

Program for RREF
for the TI-82

Announcements: 

Thanks for attending the course.

Approximate letter grades for Exam #1
Total points on exam was 35. Median score was 22.
Mean score was 21.7. Standard deviation was 4.7.
score grade      score grade
29-35 A 19 C+
27-28 A- 18 C
24-26 B+ 17 C-
22-23 B 14-16 D
20-21 B- 0-13 F
Exam 1 solutions (PDF)
Exam 1 Topics and Practice Exam (PDF)
Solutions to Practice Exam #1 (PDF)
      
Approximate letter grades for Exam #2
Total points on exam was 36. Median score was 24.
Mean score was 24.6. Standard deviation was 5.9.
score grade      score grade
31-36 A 19-20 C+
29-30 A- 17-18 C
26-28 B+ 15-16 C-
23-25 B 14 D
21-22 B- 0-13 F
Exam 2 solutions (PDF)
Exam #2 Practice Problems (PDF)
Solutions to Exam #2 Practice Problems (PDF)

Calendar  (subject to revision)

Math 15 syllabus (HTML)        Printable version (PDF)

Math 15a-1 meets on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 1:10pm to 2:00pm in Goldsmith 117.

Math 15a-2 meets on Monday and Wednesday from 2:10pm to 3:30pm in Goldsmith 317.

Office hours are Mondays and Wednesdays from noon to 1:00pm and from 3:30pm to at least 4:00pm; and
Thursdays from noon to 1:00pm and from 2:00pm to at least 2:30pm.

If you are a student with a documented disability on record at Brandeis University and wish to have a reasonable accommodation made for you in this class, please see me at your earliest convenience. - RW

Here's something:  http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html 

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Please send comments to Robert Winters.
URL: http://math.rwinters.com/15a 
Last modified:  Sunday, December 23, 2007